Nicolas Maduro wins Venezuelan Presidential poll

In Venezuela, the Socialist candidate Nicolas Maduro has won a narrow victory in Presidential poll.

Mr Maduro, who was chosen by the late President Hugo Chavez, won 50.7
per cent of the vote against 49.1 per cent for opposition candidate
Henrique Capriles. The electoral commission said the results were
irreversible.

Moments
after Mr Maduro's victory was announced, celebrations started across the
capital Caracas. Following the announcement, Mr Maduro acclaimed his
victory as fair and legal and called for calm.

The Venezuelan opposition candidate for the Presidency Henrique
Capriles has said he will not recognize the result of the election until
all votes are counted.

At a press conference, a determined Mr Capriles said Nicholas Maduro
was the defeated candidate and added that there were over three thousand
incidents from Sunday's election that would need to be examined.

Mr Maduro had been serving as acting President since Mr Chavez died of
cancer last month. He is due to be sworn in on 19th of this month and
serve until January 2019 to complete the six-year term that Mr Chavez
would have begun in January.